TCI Lesson 1 Vocabulary

an exact description of where something can be found

• exact location

• adobe

• equator

• capitol

a type of brick made of lcas and straw and dried in the sun

• global grid

• prime meridian

• scale

• adobe

the city where the government of a state or country meets

• lines of longitude

• capital

• hemisphere

• equator

line of latitude that circles the middle of the globe

• equator

• prime meridian

• hemisphere

• population density

a place where two pieces of Earth's crust meet

• captial

• fault

• map key

• natural region

a social scientist who studies geography

• lines of latitude

• absolute location

• relative location

• geographer

the crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude on am ap or globe

• natural region

• global grid

• latititude

• longitude

half the globe

• hemisphere

• global grid

• population density

• map key

lines on a globe or map that run east to west and measure distance from the equator; also called parallels

• latitude

• longitude

• map key

• scale

lines on a globe or map that run north to south and measure distance from the prime meridian; also called meridians

• absolute location

• lines of longitude

• hemisphere

• prime meridian